Vasaloppet: Cykelvasan races divided into three days in 2018

In August 2018 Vasaloppet’s Summer Week will take place for the tenth time, now with three days of biking, instead of the previous two. It’s due to the large interest that Ungdomscykelvasan, Cykelvasan 30 and Cykelvasan 45 are moving from Friday to Sunday. Since 2013 the amount of registered participants in Vasaloppet’s Summer Week has increased by 40 percent. Here we will also present this year’s participation statistics.

When Cykelvasan started in 2009 it also established Vasaloppet’s Summer Week. In 2017 the Summer Week attracted a total of 30,829 registered participants, an increase of six percent compared to 2016. Since 2013 the increase is a massive 40 percent!

Cykelvasan 2018 will take place during these three days:
Friday August 10: Cykelvasan Öppet Spår
Saturday August 11: Cykelvasan 90
Sunday August 12: Ungdomscykelvasan, Cykelvasan 30 and Cykelvasan 45

Cykelvasan Öppet Spår grew this year by 23 percent and moving the shorter races to Sunday in 2018 will allow the maximum amount of Cykelvasan Öppet Spår participants to be raised.
“At present we cannot keep growing and maintain the quality of our races without expanding the number of days. Among other reasons we’ve chosen to place the shorter races on Sunday since they finish earlier in the day, allowing participants to travel home during the afternoon,” says Tommy Höglund, Sport Manager at Vasaloppet.

Another reason for this change is the logistic traffic situation in Mora during the Friday, which is already strained. This year there were 10,000 cyclists finishing on Friday, while many others were collecting number bibs for Saturday, which led to many cars in movement at once.
“Now we’ll be able to receive more cyclists in Cykelvasan Öppet Spår on Friday, which will also start earlier, giving cyclists more time out on the course. Experience also shows that there are more children, youths and families participating in the shorter races, so we believe that placing them on a Sunday will give more people the opportunity to participate,” says Tommy Höglund.

Statistics, Vasaloppet’s Summer Week2017, race by race

Cykelvasan

registered

starting

aborted

finishing

Cykelvasan 90

13044

11646

140

11506

Cykelvasan Öppet Spår

4948

4432

115

4317

Cykelvasan 45

2549

2245

13

2232

Ungdomscykelvasan

255

236

3

233

Cykelvasan 30

3371

3146

8

3138

Total Cykelvasan

24167

21705

279

21426

Vasastafetten

registered

starting

aborted

finishing

Number of teams

426

385

4

381

Including Vasastafetten’s 10 sections

4260

3850

40

3810

Vasakvartetten

registered

starting

aborted

finishing

Number of teams

164

142

3

139

Including Vasakvartetten’s 4 sections

656

568

12

556

Ultravasan

registered

starting

aborted

finishing

Ultravasan 90

1019

899

103

796

Ultravasan 45

727

573

15

558

Total Ultravasan

1746

1472

118

1354

Total Vasaloppet’s Summer Week 2017

30829

27595

449

27146

2018Registration for Vasaloppet’s Summer Week 2018 opens on Sunday, September 10 at 09:00 on vasaloppet.se. More information on how registration works will be available at vasaloppet.se.